Lack of Security at Wireless Conferences

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During the 802.11 Planet Expo in Boston, wireless security company AirDefense monitored WLAN activity and published their findings in the July 2003 edition of WLAN Watch newsletter. These are some of the fun facts AirDefense stumbled across. Suspicious and malicious activity at the 802.11 Planet Expo included:

149 network scans from tools such as Netstumbler, Wellenreiter and commercial scanners